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Word: winninger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although this fall's turnout of 100 Yardling grid aspirants fell short of the figures of the past two years by some 30 men, prospects for a winning team seem the brightest since 1930.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outlook for Freshman Grid Squad Brightest in 3 Years | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

Composer Van Vactor, whose Symphony in D won the prize, became a musician by accident because he happened to inherit a flute from an uncle. The village barber of Plymouth, Ind., where his family then lived, taught him how to play it. Soon Flutist Van Vactor was well along on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Evanstonians | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

In Lightnin', wave after wave of purest hokum sweeps across the stage, but so candidly that nobody minds. Famed Hoofer Fred Stone (Montgomery & Stone) proved himself a winning character actor, brought to the title role made famous by Frank Bacon if not the same homely vigor, a sly and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Old Play in Manhattan: Sep. 26, 1938 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Professor Coolidge is a 100 percent Bostonian and a bicycle enthusiast. He was born in 1873, graduated in the Class of 1895, and began teaching Mathematics two years later at Groton School. He moved to Harvard in 1900, became a professor in 1918 after winning the Cross of the Legion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: By Their Faces Ye Shall Know Them - 5 Men You'll See A Lot | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

Modern jai alai, as popularized by the Cubans,* is played on a concrete court about half the length of a football field, marked off to let the speeding players readily know where they are and to determine the boundaries of a fair serve (between the fault and pass line)-see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Merry Festival | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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